[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 155.1.8 # The Rashīdī History 155.1.8 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 155.1.8 - **Language:** English ### [155.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.1.8) it flows swiftly over a stony and sandy soil from south to north, and when it reaches Sárigh-Kul, which forms the extremity of the hilly country of Káshghar, it rushes on, with like rapidity, from rock to rock, leaping and tossing, for seven days \[journey\] in an easterly direction, until it arrives at the level ground. Here it continues its rapid course over a stony bed for two days more, and when it reaches the bed \[majra\] of the river of Yarkand, in which there are few stones, the current in some degree abates its speed. A curious fact concerning this stream is, that in the early part of the spring it becomes so small that one might almost cross it, in some places, by stepping from stone to stone. In the season of Leo, \[Asad\] it swells so much that it becomes, in places, nearly a statutory mile \[mil\] in breadth, \[while its depth is then nowhere less than four gaz\] and for a distance of one karuh it is no less than ten gaz in depth. Jade \[Yashb\] is found in this stream. Most of the country and districts of Yarkand are irrigated by it. At a distance of about seven farsakhs flows another stream called Tiz-Ab, which waters the rest of the country. For about three days' journey, at a medium pace, from Yarkand \[in the direction of Khotan\] are well populated towns and villages ; the farthest of these is called Lahuk. From this place to Khotan is ten days' slow marching, during which time, excepting at the halting places, one meets with no habitations \[ábádáni\]. - [Previous: 155.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.1.7) - [Next: 155.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.2.1) - [Up: 155.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.155.1.8) · Pramāṇa